PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s Studium Generale series will host Miriame Cherbib, teacher of French and Francophone cultures, at 12:30 p.m. Thursday via Zoom as she presents “The Five Habits of Speaking Justice.”
To join the free meeting, go to https://zoom.us/j/95156136928. The meeting ID is 951 5613 6928.
Cherbib is an anti-racist educator who founded Speaking Justice to help organizations and people of all ages and backgrounds to build skills to use their voices for justice in everyday life. She is Tunisian, French and American, and she grew up in France in a community of human rights activists.
After earning a master’s degree in international economics, she worked at the French National Research Institute on the Economics of Climate Change and helped design and organize a national dialogue on the development of renewable energies.
For the past five years, Cherbib has taught French and Francophone cultures at Five Acre School in Sequim and has developed an elementary-level anti-racist curriculum.
She created the Five Habits of Speaking Justice and facilitates workshops for educators and parents who want to integrate the principles of social justice into their everyday lives and practice them with children.
The Five Habits of Speaking Justice were born from working with students and opening their minds to the diversity of cultures in the world, she said. She realized a set of skills was needed not just to reach respect for differences, but also to stand up and speak up when that respect is absent.
She created the Five Habits as a way to practice using our voices to respond to injustice, and, in particular, racism.
The Five Habits offer a “concrete, doable approach to being our best self, especially in difficult situations,” Cherbib said.
For her Studium presentation, Cherbib will share the story behind the creation of the Five Habits and the work she is doing to bring them to schools and families.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion on the importance and challenges of using our voices for social justice in everyday life.
